seven days and know one knows for sure what is going to happen. rampant speculation is the watchword of the media, as they refuse to engage in any serious discussion of what is likely to happen over the next couple of months. clearly the adminstration will do everything in its power to stay in power, but it will also strive to consolidate its gains if it should clearly lose the white house. this means lame duck appointments and pardons and ramping up war in the mid-east and so forth.
what most people fail to even begin to comprehend is how bad this can all get. the future prices of crude oil will become the current prices in less than a month. that means amounts will move up close to 50% at the pumps.. the shock alone of this will be alarming to those who voted, more so to those that didn't. the world's economy will begin to deflate if bush is reelected or takes power in some other way. this deflation will represent efforts by global capitalists to pull out as much of their paper wealth as they can and convert it into assets more sustainable. the reinvesting will not occur in the US. citizens will be striken with flu and other viral attacks and the health care system will be overrun with need and unable to cope. likewise, schools will become ghostlands and suffer horrendous economic hardships as a result. all of this is of course preventable, but it isn't likely as the financial markets will reel from the shock and trigger further chaotic collapses in local and regional systems. people won't be albe to afford to go bankrupt.
bladerunner, handmaids tale, snowcrash, virtual light?? all tell us how we will be living the next few years.